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...After years of studying in his spare time, Lincoln gets a state law license. The next year he moves to Springfield, Ill., and begins a law partnership while living above a store...
...After a rocky courtship, Lincoln marries Mary Todd, 23, from a well-to-do Kentucky family. Their first child, Robert, is born nine months later. Mary would live to bury three of her four children...
...Elected to U.S. House of Representatives. Lincoln serves only one term but remains active in party politics...
...Accepting the nomination to run for U.S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln declares: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." Lincoln loses the race but gains national attention...
...drags on, political and military necessity drives Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation...